Yes! The ability to be outside, pull out your phone, and get an almost-to-the-minute awareness of when it was going to rain felt magical, right out of Back to the Future 2. I used this countless times.
So much of weather forecasting, at that time, was about trends and probabilities. DarkSky was about events, certainty, and action.
It was truly ahead of anything else and forced a new standard.
For me, in college, it was Age of Empires. We'd have late-night LAN sessions with roommates and friends and when I eventually crashed into bed, my brain would continue strategizing for battles, determine necessary resources to mine, etc.
If you are interested in the Jekyll / Github approach, you ought to check out Octopress (https://github.com/imathis/octopress) by Brandon Mathis.
It includes all the benefits of this approach, but with a nice out-of-the-box theme as well as useful helpers to make the blogging experience much better.
This may be true, but it also makes the common assumption that your time (or the time of your team) is somehow worth $0 dollars. But, I imagine that you would be the first to say that your time is worth much more than $0 dollars.
Put another way, hardware stores sell paint and paint supplies all day. Buying those and painting a room yourself is certainly cheaper, but it assumes you have the extra time to paint and don't mind you being the laborer. Hiring a painter costs more, but saves you a ton of time, energy, and elevates the level of expertise you are bringing to the job.
Getting started is one thing. The ease of how you maintain and grow is another.
You realize that was resolved 1.5 years ago, right? Also, it was a driver-level implementation. Comments like this make you sound more troll and less informative.
Yes, this. It is really stretching it to say that you can effectively "game" on your TV when airshare'ing from your iPad /iPhone to your Apple TV. It sucks.
Sort of ... but there are pretty serious limitations.
1. You are locked into Rackspace as your provider. MongoHQ provides multiple cloud providers.
2. They force you to shard. This increases operational and application complexity ... and may not offer any real advantages for the amount of data that you have.
Considering MongoDB has only been around for the "last few years", I think it is maturing well. You are certainly free to call it the PHP of Databases, but there are a lot of developers that have learned to use it and are quite happy with it. Seems like most on Hacker News spend more time telling them why they are stupid than actually understanding the tool.
(Also, some guy by the name of Zuckerberg made a TON of money with PHP.)
Also, the tool is still in its toddler years ... and it is constantly compared to tools that have been around years longer (PG/MySQL). Comparing it to other NoSQL databases is just as silly (Riak, Cassandra) because they are completely different, have different constraints and are solving different problems.
There aren't better choices ... there are just different tools that are better for different jobs. It would be like looking at your toolbox and chunking everything but your saw or your hammer. Too many people are looking for the "technology to rule them all", but that doesn't (and shouldn't) exist.
Man, I need to go break the news to our customers that are successfully inserting millions of documents per hour (and their apps running nicely ... probably an app you have used) to inform them that, in all reality, they are "failing miserably."
Aphyr did the same "Call Me Maybe" posts for other databases as well, highlighting their shortcomings. MongoDB has issues, but other databases have their rough edges as well. It all depends on how you use them.
For a group of people that know nothing but hammers, screwdrivers don't make much sense. This feels often what these "bash Mongo" arguments sound like.
There is no silver bullet. Just flippin' understand the tool you are using and how to use it.
Th oplog is probably the most underrated feature of MongoDB. There is all sorts of neat/useful stuff that you can do with it. Using it in Meteor and with River for Elastic Search are just a small part of what all it can do.
This is really cool ... while all the YC partners are amazingly talented and giving, you were always the person to go to in the trenches ... wise beyond your years and extremely tactical in how you communicate.
Thanks for everything you've contributed to all of us.
So much of weather forecasting, at that time, was about trends and probabilities. DarkSky was about events, certainty, and action.
It was truly ahead of anything else and forced a new standard.